Amazon.com withdraws thousands of ebooks in pricing row with publishers
20.05.12
Thousands of ebooks from independent publishers have been removed from sale on Amazon.com after a clash over trading terms.
The Independent Publishers Group, the second largest independent book distributor in the United States, said in an update that "Amazon has decided not to offer our Kindle editions at this time. Our other electronic formats are available from booksellers nationwide." The removal of more than 4,000 Kindle ebooks, including IPG bestsellers Pamela Des Barres' groupie memoir I'm with the Band , child discipline title 1-2-3 Magic by Thomas Phelan and murder mystery Snow Blind by Lori Armstrong from Amazon.com follows the IPG's refusal to agree to new terms from online retail giant, according to its president Mark Suchomel.
"Amazon.com is putting pressure on publishers and distributors to change their terms for electronic and print books to be more favourable toward Amazon. Our electronic book agreement recently came up for renewal, and Amazon took the opportunity to propose new terms for electronic and print purchases that would have substantially changed your revenue from the sale of both," Suchomel told publishers in an email printed in the book trade newsletter Publishers Lunch .
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